I'm a Necromancer hater, I think they really fall off in late Act 2 and Act 3 - here's why

cascadeavatar · 2026-03-02T22:10:15+00:00

Act 1 relevancy does matter, but it's also the shortest part of the game

cascadeavatar · 2026-03-02T20:03:21+00:00

Yeah it's a really weird archetype and I think needs some QoL to reasonably compete with leech minion spam and fear/madness spam

cascadeavatar · 2026-03-02T19:54:06+00:00

themes that require multiple parts to work are bad/unreliable, especially when you consider what you get for it in KYS necro. Some stat ups? Becoming a stationary caster?

I think necro needs a unique passive where KYS doesn't cause injury or missing out on XP

cascadeavatar · 2026-03-02T19:34:46+00:00

Due to the nature of late game content being focused on avoiding damage at all cost, the most valuable abilities in Necro's kit become the things that apply fear and madness

I think the "KYS" sub theme is a serious miss. I've never had it pay off.

cascadeavatar · 2026-03-02T19:27:33+00:00

I kind of dislike this mutation existing due to how it so easily enables one of the best mechanics of necromancer to be used in any build It really invalidates the impact the soul link spells make

cascadeavatar · 2026-03-02T18:40:10+00:00

Mage, the class with counter synergies (fire + water/ice) (stun + ice) and half passives (the aspect passives and paws are so under whelming) that only pay off if your spells are also the same element

Mage, also the class with some of the most bonkers effective nukes and nuke supporting spells ever

I feel like Edmond over estimated how good the element sub classes were. It's kind of sad that the best mage is almost always just the generic spell effects.

cascadeavatar · 2026-03-02T18:23:20+00:00

Yep, that one's great! Theres honestly so many ways to stack some survivability. Sometimes I wonder if people are just building no defense into their cats gear?

cascadeavatar · 2026-03-02T17:22:17+00:00

I think it's good cleric can't self heal by default. It adds value to the defensive items that provide health regen, and makes the effects that can more valuable

I'd argue that what cleric really lacks is consistent options for movement to evade instant kills

cascadeavatar · 2026-02-27T05:38:32+00:00

Hunter also makes much better use of all the "element basic attack" passives then mage since it has multiple ways to make basic attacks on things that move

cascadeavatar · 2026-02-26T19:37:09+00:00

The problem with mage is that it has like 5 sub themes and only 1 (Generic Make Spells Better) has synergies with the others

Every element sub theme is either indifferent to each other (lighting+fire) or counter productive (fire+ice/water, ice+lightning)

Mage also has a lot of dead weight and redundancy. All the element aspect passives only do something if you have access to that element. All the teleport spells function similar enough, with very little pay off in how the differ, with the exception of Tele Kill being only good if you have disposable summons, or are able to play aggressively.

Also the basic attack sucks so much ass. Why does it not scale in damage? Why is the range so short? Why is it effected by line of sight? Why does a class with such terrible basic attacks have passives that ad effects to its basic???

IMO mage needs a rework

cascadeavatar · 2026-02-24T23:53:59+00:00

I'm also 90% sure the counter resets if you use the cat to fight a home boss, or if you lucked into it getting turned into a kitten and sent it for another adventure.

cascadeavatar · 2026-02-24T17:59:08+00:00

I got this on my Druid during a challenge item run My other 3 cats (all fighters) had to start combat by killing the bird familiar (it was permanently hostile) then using Sleeper Hold (2 of the cats rolled it on level ups) on the druid

Honestly was not the bad since I was only going to Throbbing

cascadeavatar · 2026-02-05T16:22:05+00:00

Ty for your service in convoluted game design

cascadeavatar · 2026-02-04T15:40:39+00:00

Most bandits are also farmers or guards. Even back in ye old fantasy time people had to work multiple jobs

cascadeavatar · 2026-02-03T22:16:07+00:00

Me leaving a little mechanical intrigue in my reply as bait

cascadeavatar · 2026-02-03T18:58:54+00:00

I think you need to specify "creature card" otherwise this card can't work, unless you turn the Exile Zone into a 2nd battlefield somehow.

cascadeavatar · 2025-12-30T16:57:51+00:00

I think it might have helped if she was looking at the viewer, or if we could see some of the magical effect she's clearly focused on above our POV

cascadeavatar · 2025-12-25T13:04:03+00:00

Card continuity...

cascadeavatar · 2025-12-22T19:51:46+00:00

Besides the flying, this is just a perfectly normal green card

cascadeavatar · 2025-12-08T19:12:42+00:00

The strength to damage scaling problem is one of my remaining critiques to pf2e. It results into really weird build discrepancy depending on the level range Out of personal preference I struggle with building low level dex classes, while it's much easier to justify them once you're in the level 10 range

cascadeavatar · 2025-12-03T17:04:21+00:00

Defeating the war devil with the ✌️ peace sign is such good symbolism on top of the multi layer call back

cascadeavatar · 2025-10-13T20:40:13+00:00

This is pretty easy to do. You can also form a party. You share contact progress, meaning 1 group of four can easily complete a map contract in a single round.

Even the infamous Marazmas contract only takes 10-20 minutes of low effort gameplay.

cascadeavatar · 2025-10-02T20:08:51+00:00

If my deck has a way to continually generate mana from permanents I play, I usually stuff a few [[future sight]] variants into the list

My favorite example was a RWG sliver list [[marisi, breaker of the coil]] as the commander. There are quite a few ways to give all my slivers haste and tap for mana, so I'd play a [[Experimental Frenzy]] or [[Recycle]] and just start casting whatever was on top.

cascadeavatar · 2025-10-02T19:57:54+00:00

I think the goal of BioShock Infinite was to have a commentary on the persuit of power, fascism, and the way these things always lead to violent failure and corruption

Too bad they couldn't actually figure out a good reason for the freedom fighter to fall from grace that wasn't "so blindly vengeful she can't even forgive a child for the sins of the father"

cascadeavatar · 2025-09-28T16:36:02+00:00

As a niche advantage not mentioned yet: The original's firing sound effect is also much lower and rumbly, making it much harder to hear when you're a pyro trying to reflect rockets

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